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“A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.”

Firsts Civilization Complicated Passages Passage Of Time

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain... It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.”

People Should Helping Eye Brain Fingers Tiny Passages Concealed Passage Of Time Uncovering

Author:Jose Saramago

“All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.”

Ends Imagine Return Tragedy Passages Passage Of Time

Book:Lectures on Philosophy

Source: Lectures on Philosophy

“Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.”

Should Reality Sports Trust Passages Passage Of Time

Author:Arthur Ashe

“I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.”

Feels Years Found Passages Folds Passage Of Time Accordions

Author:Amy Grant

“only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.”

Grief Direct Heal Grieving Passages Me Alone Passage Of Time Alone Time

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But in “Boyhood,” Mr. Linklater's masterpiece, he both captures moments in time and relinquishes them as he moves from year to year. He isn't fighting time but embracing it in all its glorious and agonizingly fleeting beauty.”

Years Art Moments Moving Desire Fighting Inevitable Glorious Capture Passages Decay Masterpiece Fleeting Moments In Time Passage Of Time Boyhood

Author:Manohla Dargis

“It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I'd rather stick to the pluralness of 'histories' in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.”

Hard Moments Use Order Force Term Views History Events Produce Sticks Passages Parallels Passage Of Time

Author:Barbara Kruger

“But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.”

Should Writing Has Beens Stills Young Lost Causes Process Study Teaching Findings Errors Ancient Accepted Conclusion Passages Passage Of Time

Book:Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science

Source: Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science

“A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.”

Action Choices Left Plans Alternatives Passages Passage Of Time

Book:Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science

Source: Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science

“The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.”

Thinking Today Tomorrow Politician Critical Speed Passages Desirable Rail Passage Of Time High Speed High Speed Rail

Author:Anthony Albanese

“You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.”

Knows Way Years Kind Next Left Painting Dating Depth Notion Radio Finished Passages Carbon Abyss Unfinished The Next One Passage Of Time Unfathomable Blown Away Charcoal

Author:Werner Herzog

“The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.”

Book Sometimes Virtue Objects Exercise Ambition Letters Absolutes Passages Linked Archetype Passage Of Time Platonic

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.”

Seems Flow Wave Obstacles Flight Retirement Passages Passage Of Time

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.”

Should Believe Character Stories Might I Believe Novel Effects Development Involved Capable I Believe In Complicated Newspapers Plot Passages Good Story Passage Of Time

Author:John Irving

“The creative process is just a process and you can't really separate it from life. Growing your hair is a creative process. Your body is creating hair. Being alive is a creative process. Whether it's growing something in the garden or growing a song, the material accumulates. It's the process of being alive; it's the passage of time. Things change.”

Body Song Process Creative Alive Growing Materials Hair Creating Garden Your Body Passages Creative Process Things Change Passage Of Time

Author:Antony Hegarty

“For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.”

Art Pieces Wall Theater Abstract Interpretation Passages Canvas Passage Of Time

Author:Jose Parla

“That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.”

People Thinking Giving Jobs Chance Alive Passages Reminders Distracted Passage Of Time

Author:Adam Haslett

“True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.”

People Men World Humans Looks Pain Faces Joy Humanity Common Sorrow Ordinary Red Let Me Leaving Dare Creator Fighter Devices Passages Pale Existential Vague Ordinary People Bloodshed Passage Of Time

Author:Lu Xun

“I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.”

Happens Eye Attention Fronts Happenings Paid Something New Passages Passage Of Time

Author:William Eggleston

“Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul.”

Soul Situation Circumstances Endure Patient Cells Endurance Passages Up And Down Passage Of Time Pacing

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.”

Character Stories Novel Fans Effects Century Majors Driven Passages Minors 19th Century Passage Of Time Minor Characters

Author:John Irving

“The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though sheer passage of time makes something which to begin with was just made up, turns it into what people believe as a fact.”

People Believe Made Facts Seems Turns Tradition Odd Passages Sheer Passage Of Time Odd Things

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so slow developing that the decision-makers will depart before the results of their neglect becomes manifest. Which brings us to the environment.”

Certain Decision Results Issues Environment Type Developing Going Away Neglect Makers Manifest Passages Ignored Passage Of Time Decision Makers

Author:Jack McDevitt

“I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.”

Artist Objects Economics Instruments Everyday Admire Passages Transforming Passage Of Time

Author:Gabriel Orozco

“The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.”

“To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass.”

Art Memories Effort Wine Fruit Glasses Finished Impression Soil Lasting Works Of Art Makers Passages Transformed Passage Of Time Hectic Good Wine Finished Work Lasting Impressions

Author:Dave Chambers

“I think I was always able to laugh a lot at the industry - to be detached from it, even if some of the other models weren't. Jeez - it's hardly rocket science, is it? It's not as if you can get to be a better model..... .you can either get away with it, or you cant? And most of them were also acutely aware of the passage of time.....and how it would affect their careers.”

Ifs Thinking Able Careers Laughing Industry Models Get Away Passages Cant Rockets Detached Passage Of Time Rocket Science

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time), and even within the same community, and likely within the same schools. This variability makes it difficult to offer generalized responses without accompanying caveats.”

Thinking School Difficult Community Offers Impact Response Passages Academic Vary Passage Of Time Variability Academic Freedom

Author:Richard A. Falk

“I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when it was completely done and in printed galleys, I was surprised by how uninterested in the passage of time and history the book seemed to be. Even though you can feel it all there, that's just not what it's focused on.”

Thinking Feels Book Done Young Reading Novel Historical Focused Passages Printed Passage Of Time Uninterested Historical Novels

Author:Danielle Dutton

“A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.”

“One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.”

Knows Situation Know How One Thing Behave Passages Passage Of Time

Author:Christine Sneed

“I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how similar problems are resolved in other forms. The issues in all forms are the same in an abstract sense, aren't they? Characterization, abstraction, metaphor, passage of time... Whether it's a movie, a novel, a play, or a poem, those issues exist. And each person resolves them differently.”

Thinking Persons Play Problem Form Novel Issues Metaphor Abstract I've Learned Resolve Passages Abstraction Edits Passage Of Time Characterization

Author:Frederick Wiseman

“In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse to let the past disappear and be forgotten, and to refuse to let the present become the past - to try to keep living another day, to try to talk your way into life, or seduce your way into it.”

Way Writing Trying Past Forgotten Refuse Disappear Passages Another Day Seducing Passage Of Time

Author:Elif Batuman

“You can do a lot with a commercial break - you can change days, you can suggest the passage of time. So sometimes that's a great thing artistically, to know that's going to be there. Obviously you'd always prefer that people see it straight through, and you don't want them to be taken out of it by advertising, but that's the reality of what's paying the bills here.”

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Author:Matthew Weiner

“Now, a lot of people look for answers in spirituality or different texts, but for me this is life. This is what life is: the passage of time. It's not about how to pass the time, but about the acceptance of the time passing. I know people think of my work as spiritual, but really it's just that I consume time. That's all.”

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Author:Tehching Hsieh

“One wonders if Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's administrations may come to be viewed, in the future, as having been underestimated in some respects. To be sure, each ended in failure. Nonetheless, Johnson's accomplishments in civil rights and immigration legislation, and Nixon's in respect to relations with China, may loom larger with the passage of time.”

Wonder Relation Immigration Civil Rights Accomplishment Underestimated Passage Of Time

Author:James M Strock

“With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.”

Doe Matter Perspective Victim Passages Turning Points Passage Of Time

Author:Jon Meacham

“The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.”

Life Is Time Enjoy Secret Musician Passages Secret Life Passage Of Time

Author:James Taylor

“Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.”

Culture Growing Limits Shots Anger Contemporary Passages Resentment Disgusting Growing Old Passage Of Time Anger And Resentment Anger Resentment

Book:Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral

Source: Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral

“A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.”

Trying Humans Environment Healthy Limits Accidents Make Sense Passages Passage Of Time

Book:Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral

Source: Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”

People Love Accepting Wind Hardest Passages Passage Of Time Parentheses

Author:John Irving

“After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.”

People World Heart Whole Desire Impossible Eternal Logic Wide Passages Marble Defiance Polished Passage Of Time

Author:Richard Russo

“How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.”

Ifs Men Writing May Dream Song Sweet Exercise Authority Longing Certainty Passages Our Relationship Assurance Comforting Hopes And Dreams Passage Of Time Lds Certainty Of Death

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.”

Fall Sun Sea Rocks Beats Seasons Complexes Wave Passages Tides Passage Of Time Rise And Fall

Book:Tortilla Flat

Source: Tortilla Flat

“He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.”

Trying Hours Differences Six Appearance Passages Discovering Examining Passage Of Time One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Book:One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.”

Wells Social Blood Tears Color Evolution Conscience Passages Salt Passage Of Time

Author:Jose Saramago

“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.”

Ifs Moments Hours Minutes Tomorrow If I Could Passages Passage Of Time Robbing

Author:Guy de Maupassant

“From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.”

Book Stories Hands Water Fire Reader Passages Passage Of Time

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.”

People Looks Character Happens Form Pieces Worst Curious Sand Passages Shells Pearls Irritation Passage Of Time Character Change

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

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